ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,234, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Energy store for an electrically drivable means of transportation" was invented by Johannes Grabowski (Reutlingen, Germany), Joachim Joos (Gerlingen, Germany), Walter Von Emden (Eningen Unter Achalm, Germany) and Andreas Keller (Reutlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy store including a housing, a first plurality of storage cells, a second plurality of storage cells, a first electrical pin configuration, a second electrical pin configuration, and a switching device. The switching device is configured to connect the first plurality of ...